Premier League Saturday, Gameweek 2: Open Thread

We’re back for another Saturday of Premier League matches kicking off today. First up is Swansea against West Ham United. The big news out of Wales this morning is that Scott Sinclair is not playing and he’s not even on the bench, so a move to Manchester City must be close.

After the Swansea-West Ham match, there are several 10am ET?3pm BST matches in store — with Tottenham against West Brom, Norwich against QPR, Southampton against Wigan, Sunderland versus Reading, Aston Villa battles Everton and, of course, Manchester United against Fulham.

Then the final match of the day is the big one — Chelsea versus Newcastle United.

Lots of wonderful soccer is in store today.

Before, during or after the matches today, post your rants, raves, questions and observations in the comments section below.

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59 Comments

The GafferAugust 25, 2012

West Ham has started well. They’re closing down the Swansea players, making them make mistakes, pressing well, and stopping Swansea from playing their game. The Swans need to lift themselves up and start passing better.

Gaffer
in another 25 mins your going to have to go to the official EPL site and take a screen grab of the Swans on top of the table and use it for your screen saver.your boys are doing you proud.proud day for a Welshmen in Florida.

So for 70 minutes Spurs dominate, Lukaku made the difference for West Brom, but lets not get swept up in the moment because of the ending. obviuosly you can shoulda, woulda, coulda about Spurs missed chances. But to say West Brom deserved the point after being dominated for 70 mins is quite absurd.

Granted Spurs played well the first half but nevertheless West Brom held it to the half. A number of good chances but Foster didn’t make a real save until 44th minute. Spurs blew many chances. West Brom did improve in the second half and some defending mistakes cost Spurs. I was hoping for a win but there is always next week. Tottenham need to make some defense decisions. Glad to hear Dawson wants to fight for his spot as he should.

Still in a better position than we were last season, we had 0 pints from 2 games last year. Next week at home to Norwich..hopefully business will be concluded with addition of Willan and Ade will start hopefully. As should Siguardson. Livermore needs to learn to not blast the ball every time he passes the ball.

Terrific win for Everton and they are on course on becoming the better team in the city of Liverpool, if they haven’t already. They are also buying very wisely with Niang next in line. I definitely see Everton in the top 6.

AVB is already under pressure with a draw at home. West Brom were great especially after Lukaku came on. Great business for them to get him on loan.

The Swans are once again playing pleasing football but are scoring for fun. Laudrup will be in the conversation for manager of the year at the end of the season.

A win would have been more deserving of Spurs domination fro 70 minutes, i don’t think its the system or AVB’s fault but i’m sure he will be battered in the media… At some point the players have to own missing the opportunities.

Brad Frieldel, looked everyday of his 41 years 98 days on that corner, may as well have been a cut out. Benny didn’t attack the ball, neither did Lennon, just very poor defending on that corner.

A shame Gallas was offside for the winner to be denied in the 94th minute for spurs.

it sucks because the system is creating all the opportunities needed for a team to win and win comfortably, its the lack of finishing, what AVB supposed to do if they dont take the chances they have. 1st half spurs had 10 shots on goal WBA had 1 a free kick from reid that missed but 30 foot over the bar. Lennon doesn’t push forward enough in the 4-2-3-1 system, he leaves wholes up front that allow the opposition to regain control. He will hopefully be replaced by Willan.